CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Maharashtra became India’s first state to launch Public Cloud Policy, which will allow all government departments to access public cloud.

Detailed explanation-2: -3.1 Cloud First Policy of MeitY As a part of the MeghRaj initiative, MeitY came out with the ‘Cloud First’ policy under which all the departments are required to assess and adopt cloud computing for their current as well as new applications.

Detailed explanation-3: -Definition of Public Cloud Public cloud is a cloud deployment model where computing resources are owned and operated by a provider and shared across multiple tenants via the Internet.

Detailed explanation-4: -This initiative is to implement various components including governance mechanism to ensure proliferation of Cloud in the government. The focus of this initiative is to accelerate delivery of e-services in the country while optimizing ICT spending of the Government.

Detailed explanation-5: -Launched in 2016 by the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), DigiLocker enables Indians to digitally store a copy of 568 various documents on a secure cloud platform.